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Compression Settings

Updated on Feb 19, 2026

RadZipLibrary allows you compress and decompress data in your application seamlessly. There are different settings that can be used for compression and this article discusses all of them.

Deflate Settings

Deflate settings are used for compressing data using a combination of the LZ77 algorithm and Huffman coding.

ou can find more information on the Deflate data compression algorithm here.

The DeflateSettings class exposes some configurable parameters:

CompressionLevel: Property of type CompressionLevel representing the level of compression of the algorithm.
HeaderType: Represents the compression stream header type. The possible values are None and ZLib.

Example 1 demonstrates how to create DeflateSettings.

Example 1: Create DeflateSettings

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	DeflateSettings compressionSettings = new DeflateSettings();
	compressionSettings.CompressionLevel = CompressionLevel.Best;
	compressionSettings.HeaderType = CompressedStreamHeader.ZLib;

LZMA Settings

LZMA settings are used for compressing your data using Lempel-Ziv-Markov chain algorithm (LZMA).

ou can read more about LZMA here.

The configurable parameters of the LzmaSettings class are as follows:

DictionarySize: The size of the used dictionary. Allowed values are in the range [0 – 27] and the default value is 23 (8MB).
PositionStateBits: The number of position state bits. Allowed values are in the range [0 – 4]; the default value is 2.
LiteralContextBits: The number of literal context bits. Allowed values are in the range [0 – 4]; the default value is 3.
LiteralPositionBits: The number of literal position bits. Allowed values are in the range [0 – 4]; the default value is 3.
FastBytes: The number of fast bytes. Allowed values are in the range [5 – 273]; the default value is 32.
MatchFinderType: The type of the match finder. Allowed values are BT2(match finder that uses two bytes for the hash) and BT4(uses four bytes for the hash).

Example 2: Create LzmaSettings

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	LzmaSettings compressionSettings = new LzmaSettings();
	compressionSettings.DictionarySize = 23;
	compressionSettings.FastBytes = 32;
	compressionSettings.LiteralContextBits = 3;
	compressionSettings.LiteralPositionBits = 3;
	compressionSettings.MatchFinderType = LzmaMatchFinderType.BT4;
	compressionSettings.PositionStateBits = 2;

Store Settings

Store settings are used to just store the data using no compression.

Example 3: Create StoreSettings

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	StoreSettings compressionSettings = new StoreSettings();